ambiguous ?

[Peter da Silva]

In article <14102 at lanl.gov> jlg at lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
> Gee, isn't it interesting that the only order dependent behaviour you
> are willing to trust are the "well-defined" && and || operators.

Short-circuit evaluation of logical operators is a well-researched subject.
In any language in which this can occur (such as C and ADA), the order of
evaluation is well-defined. These particular semantics are *not*, as you
imply, a quirk of the C language.
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